Sex Holiday in Thailand – Planning, Advice & Costs

These days you hear more expats in Thailand than ever complaining about all different sorts of things: The uneasy visa situation for long time residents. Increasingly tougher to set up companies (especially if you don’t want to rent a physical office). Unreasonable prices for condos given the generally poor building standards. Increasing number of both road accidents and criminal rates. And so on and so forth.

I don’t want to comment on all these points as I personally think life in Thailand is as good and fun as ever if you weigh off all the pros and cons (and the fact that the US Dollar to Thai Baht exchange rate is currently very attractive). But how about traveling to Thailand with little focus on sunbathing on crowded beaches and riding elephants in humid rainforests but rather on happy ending massages in air-conditioned parlors during the day and adventurous visits to the various red light establishments during the night?

There has never been a better time for a sex holiday in Thailand than now.

Before I receive comments from readers claiming that the cost of sex in other Southeast Asian countries like Cambodia, Burma or even the Philippines is cheaper than here in Thailand, let me say this: It’s true that you can generally get a hooker in Phnom Penh slightly cheaper for 50 USD for the whole night (that’s actually more than most people think before first going there) compared to generally 2,000-3,000 Baht for a long time with a Thai bar girl (55-83 USD). However, in Thailand you get a much better value for money if you look at the bigger picture, your whole sex holiday, because it has the best infrastructure and overall entertainment in the region.

Leave alone all the super modern shopping malls and western restaurants that you can barely find in the neighboring countries and if you do, then the quality usually sucks. And when you eventually leave your hotel room after another session rubbing up and down that smooth-like-silk skinned hot Asian thing you might not want to get a view like this in downtown Phnom Penh (literally 50 meters from the river promenade):

But more like this, a (mostly) clean environment and a (more or less) well organized and easy to navigate public transportation system like in Bangkok:

Cost of a Sex Holiday in Thailand

I have already touched some price aspects in the introduction and I guess this is also one of the things you are most curious about while planning your trip and making a reasonable budget. So let’s assume you are going for a two week sex vacation and let’s also assume that you want entertainment on average once a day, means you want to be either jerked or sucked off in a happy ending massage salon or blow job bar during the day and/or rent a hooker from one of the bars at night.

Don’t think I’m exaggerating here when I say once a day because when you sit in your hotel room on your fifth night after taking a shower you will start asking yourself what other things you can do than hit the bars and “just see what happens”. Sure you can go to the cinema or stay in your hotel and read a book but you can do that at home too, can’t you? Chances are that you go checking out the girls or otherwise feel like you are wasting your time or “missing out” while everyone in town seems to enjoy themselves.

There are four typical daily costs for your sex holiday in Thailand:

Hotel: 1,000-2,000 Baht for a decent 3-4 star hotel room per night, and in this price range they should always include buffet breakfast (for more detail continue reading). We’ll budget with 1,500 Baht a day.

Food and drinks: From 200 Baht a day if you eat only Thai food on street stalls and food courts to 2,000 Baht a day if your hotel doesn’t include breakfast and you’ll eat three times a day at quality Western restaurants only. Let’s suppose you do a fair mix of both local Thai and Western food and that makes a convenient budget of 800 Baht a day.

Transportation: Let’s assume 3 taxi rides a day on average (sometimes by car, sometimes by motorcycle). And let’s also assume you spend your whole 2-week holiday at one location, i.e. Bangkok, Pattaya or Phuket (continue reading for recommendations on the best places for your sex holiday). Therefore no costs for domestic long-distance bus, train or airplane travels (even if you were to take a bus from Bangkok to Pattaya that’ll just be 124 Baht and that’s what you often pay for a 30 minutes taxi ride in Bangkok). Makes 100-300 Baht in transportation costs around your chosen city. Let’s take the average of 200 Baht a day.

Entertainment: Now this is where it gets really interesting as this section you won’t find on most sites on the internet. And even if you do, the prices stated are often outdated or simply unrealistic.
I’d like to split the entertainment costs into two parts: Drinking and mongering. The easier one is drinking and prices range from 70 Baht during happy hour at the beer bars, 140 Baht a drink at a night club, 165 Baht at a Go Go Bar to 390 Baht for a cocktail in one of Bangkok’s better sky bars. It’s obviously quite difficult to make an estimate as I don’t know about your drinking habits. Maybe you don’t drink alcohol at all then your budget here wouldn’t be more than 150 Baht a day, maybe you drink 2-3 beers a day then 250 Baht would do, but maybe your plan is to get wild and party hard and open a bottle of whiskey on some nights then your daily budget would rather be around 800 Baht. Again, let’s take an average cost for drinking of 400 Baht a day.
And then there is the cost of sex with Thai girls during your holiday. Now again, if you take any type of Thai bar girl you generally have two options: Short time means you spend one to two hours with her either in your hotel (make sure it is guest-friendly) or in a short-time-hotel (standard rate is 350 Baht for 1-2 hours). Or you take her long time and that means you would spend the whole night together until breakfast the next morning or not uncommon until she starts working again the following day. Don’t believe guys who tell you it’s so expensive now as the standard price for a short time in Thailand is still 1,000 Baht and long time 2,000 Baht (yes, sometimes more than that like if you talk to a especially attractive coyote in the Go Go Bar). Note that you also have to include the costs for buying lady drinks (140-240 Baht) as well as the bar fine (unless she is a freelancer) and here the spread is even bigger but a very common price is 800 Baht. For a complete overview of the 14 (!) different types and costs of Thai hookers check out this post. This is the most difficult position to make an estimate for but I’ll still do that and assume you spend 2,000 Baht a day on Thai girls during your holiday (some days you might just have a happy ending massage for 800 Baht all inclusive and some other days you might buy a girl a couple of lady drinks and pay her bar fine as well as the price for long time).

Let’s sum up our average daily costs: 1,500 Baht (hotel) + 800 Baht (food & drinks) + 200 Baht (transportation) + 2,400 Baht (entertainment) = 4,900 Baht per day. I’m not going to list all the current exchange rates here, I guess most of you guys already know how much this is and otherwise you can use a currency converter.

Yes, of course you can do it cheaper than that (especially if you replace the 2,000 Baht a day for Thai girls with 1,000 Baht a month by signing up on one of the popular online dating sites instead of paying a hooker for sex).

On top of your daily budget obviously comes the price for a return flight ticket from wherever you are living. And if you decide to spend your sex vacation outside of Bangkok then you might want to book a couple of domestic flights that are quite cheap especially when booking with AirAsia (like I just checked the fare for a Bangkok-Phuket trip for 2 months from now and I get promo fares at 888 Baht one way).

Plus health insurance, visa costs (many nationalities including American, Western European and Australian receive a free 30 day visa on arrival) and costs for any souvenirs you buy like a handbag for your new girlfriend or dried mangos for your mom.

Where to Meet Thai Girls on Your Sex Holiday?

Before you get overwhelmed here with too much information, let’s have a look at the bigger picture first before going into the detail. You can meet Thai girls either online or offline. Online means you would sign up on one of the dating sites. The most popular one for both Thai girl and ladyboy dating is Thai Friendly and the other one for more serious relationship kind of dating is Thai Cupid.

You can then conveniently have some chat and arrange several meetings with the girls from your home – before you even started your holiday. The great thing about the dating sites is that the girls usually only expect you to pay for dinner, ice cream, coffee, movie ticket or whatever you are doing together and don’t want money for sex. It’s pretty much like “take me out and treat me for some fun and I’ll return the favor”.

And then you can also go the traditional way of meeting Thai girls during your sex holiday and that is by approaching them offline. That means you would either talk to girls in everyday situations like when you like a girl in the coffee shop or a waitress in the restaurant you can try to flirt with her a little and see how she reacts. The second way would be that you simply pay a hooker for an agreed amount of time of fun and pleasure. Or thirdly, you would go out to the bars and nightclubs and try to hit on the girls there (however the problem here is when you go to the Farang-oriented nightclubs in Thailand it’s often quite hard to find non-working girls, means most of them are freelancers and go with the tourists for money).

I would recommend you to try a mix of everything, simply because if you only focus on one of the three methods it can either get expensive or you just don’t score.

So for example if you only pay for hookers twice a day, every day, it will eat up your budget very quickly. If you only focus on the dating sites you might have bad luck with the girl cancelling the date on a short notice or simply not showing up. If you only try to approach girls in everyday situations you might often find out that she has already got a Thai boyfriend after you spent a lot of time (and maybe money) hitting on her. And if you only try to look for girls in the bars and clubs you might also find it hard to spot the difference between working and non-working girls.

Put your eggs into all four different baskets and you’ll be fine. Arrange meetings through the online dating sites for every other day, get on the playground by experimenting with approaching normal girls around town and in the nightlife venues and go for the bargirls on the days you haven’t much success with the other methods.

I have written a separate post on the 4 different ways to meet girls in Thailand that you can find here.

What’s the Best Place for a Sex Holiday in Thailand?

If you have like two weeks for your vacation then I’d say either Bangkok, Pattaya or Phuket. Why? Because these three places have both the highest number by far of Thai sex workers in all of Thailand as well as the best infrastructure including great value-for-money hotels, modern shopping malls, excellent restaurants and easy-to-navigate public transportation.

In either of these cities you can find dozens and hundreds of beer bars, go go bars, happy ending massage salons, soapy massage parlors, freelancers, escort girls and more.

You could also consider spending two to three nights in Bangkok to experience the city life, do the sightseeing and visit a few sky bars, before heading to either Pattaya or Phuket for a more relaxed stay on the beach.

Pattaya has the highest number of western-oriented bargirls in all of Thailand but Phuket is more attractive for day trips to beautiful islands (e.g. James Bond island, Koh Phi Phi, Similan Islands etc.), however Koh Larn off Pattaya is also really nice but that’s about it.

You can’t go wrong with any of these three places for your sex holiday, but I wouldn’t recommend going to more than two places if you have only two weeks to spend as it takes a few days to get a orientation and feel for a place as well as to know where to find the best bars, restaurants etc.

If you have a longer holiday, like three or four weeks then I’d say you shouldn’t spend all that time in one location or you’ll get bored during the day (unless you are an alcoholic and start drinking in the morning).

There are just so many beautiful places in Thailand and you can well combine island hopping or any kind of fun touristy stuff during the day and get laid at night virtually everywhere – not just in the big tourist hubs. If you haven’t checked out my nightlife guides for places all around Thailand you might want to do that before you plan your sex trip. My guides include all the relevant information for single male travelers you can only find here in that much detail.

Choosing a Hotel for Your Sex Holiday in Thailand

There are usually two things you need to look out for when booking a hotel: Value-for-money means the room should be fair priced depending on how nice and comfortable it is as well as the amenities like how does the swimming pool look like, how about the views out of the window, is there a rooftop bar, how about the WIFI, how about the breakfast etc.

The second thing that’s obviously important, not only in Thailand, but anywhere in the world: The location of the hotel. However, while a lot of couples would book their hotel in Bangkok in the Khaosan area that’s close to major sights like the Grand Palace and Chao Phraya River, as a sex tourist you really shouldn’t do that. Yes, there are a few freelancers on Khaosan Road but that’s about it for the Thai girls scene there. Instead, you should be booking your hotel in downtown Bangkok like in Sukhumvit where you have more go go bars, beer bars and night clubs than you can handle all within walking distance.

And then for sex tourists there is a third criteria for booking a hotel: Whether it is “guest-friendly” or not. That means if the hotel management allows you to bring in Thai women into your room. That’s always a yes or no question and you should be clear about that. Sometimes if they are guest-friendly they may also charge a so called “joiner-fee” or 300 up to 1,000 Baht (quite random really) so they get out something of the business, too. But maybe you don’t plan on bringing girls back to your room and only “do it” outside like you go to a massage parlor, bring a bargirl to a short time hotel, go to her place instead of yours after meeting at the club etc.

I have compiled lists of great value-for-money, location and guest-friendly hotels for the “Big 3” that you can find here:

That was quite a lot of information on how to plan your sex holiday in Thailand. I think this post was long overdue as I constantly receive questions from guys who come here for their first time and are unsure about the costs and the best place to spend their vacation.

If you are one of those guys, then I hope you have a good overview now and if not and you already knew most of the things I covered today then I’m sure we can all use this page to collaborate and help other guys with additional questions they may have down in the comments section.

There’s definitely a mix of different working girls in Thailand. I lived in bangkok for a year in the suhkimvit area and there are certain bars where you can get sucked off for like 250-400baht. Pretty girls different ages.sex is like 750-1200baht,these types of bars are at the lower end and can sometimes be not the most inviting! But if you explore a little and don’t just focus on the more established venues,you can find some real gems, that are not so loud and more low key.I like the pool bars in Nana/Asok areas and Patpong.You can find some real beauties and the girls aren’t as clingy and fake. sit at the bar a girl will be straight over!. Small rooms in the back of the premises. You’ll quickly become confident, once you’ve visited a few bars and got a handle of the situation. Don’t be afraid to turn girls away your not interested in, be polite but firm, have a good look around the room before you decide what girl or girl’s you like and approach them. Even eye contact works well, remember “they do this for a living, most cases helping family.they can tell straight away if your ‘green’ and maybe to take advantage of you .e.g Buying them a lot of drinks and there friends drinks, this is how the girls make tips as the drink prices are inflated. The bars that have rooms on the premises vary, here’s a last tip, if you want a three-some meet a girl in the bar and ask if she has a friend at the bar who works with her.if your lucky and she’s good looking too, always take the friend combo, not to girls who may not no each other well. Or not get along.There’s a lot of girls all together there’s going to be conflict. The friend combo ensures a good time and they’ll enjoy it too.☺

Just wasn’t sure if some of the women liked to stick around or see you again during their off-time or if most of the interactions were transactional in nature. I’m 30 and in great shape if that makes a difference to them.

Having had girlie holidays in Thailand I would add a few comments.
Traditional dating sites work and I have scored a few times that way, usually with hotel workers. But on your holiday you want your girl by your side, in the pool, lunchtime etc. They work so hard you never see them, at 9pm for a few hours and that’s it.
So I would go with the traditional method, find a girl in a bar and tell her you want her for a few days. They are really grateful, don’t have to go to work, stay up late etc. if you’re nice to them of course!
I have a permanent FB in BKK but she is older, not like a young bar girl. She came from AFF.

Hey Redcat. I can’t find an email for you anywhere so I’ll ask here. If I want to have the best of the best in women and experience how much usd will I need. My lodging is covered. I want one to two women a day. Maybe a longtime each night. 8 nights. Drink like a god and eat like a god. What do you think. I was thinking 2000.00 usd. To much or not enough? Thanks!

Hey Gschad, well that’s like $250 a day right. That’s a lot. So sure, $100 (about 3,500 Baht) gives you easily a long time with a top notch chick (8-9) from the beer bar, but probably not from the go go bar. So maybe another $70-90 (2,500-3,000 Baht) for short time with a hot go go girl, or a soapy massage every day. That leaves you with at least $50-70 for lunch, dinner, transport and drinks at night. You’ll eat fine for that. Just go to the food court once a day (authentic Thai food for 50-70 Baht a dish) and yes, then you will also eat like a “god” for dinner.

Again that’s quite a big budget, you can easily have fun for less than that, but to answer your question: It will certainly be enough, if you have already covered your hotel costs.

Interesting that you mentioned that because I have read about people complaining about this exact thing and I was also thinking that it would be significantly cheaper in those other countries. I’m reading in other blogs where people are saying that it has become so expensive in Thailand making it sound like you can’t get long term for 2000 – 3000 baht, perhaps they are being very picky about the type of girl? I agree with you that I’m willing to pay a little extra for the better infrastructure and entertainment. I’m thinking that it’s also safer in Thailand as well compared to like the Philippines? We are not talking about that much more money either, I mean if you are saying you can get a long term with a nice looking young girl for 2000-3000 baht (they are complaining that the quality of the girls have worsen, too many older “mature” rough girls ripping you off as well as the cuter ones charging you more like 4000-5000 baht long time) can’t camplain too much really that’s still a hell of a bargain compared to western prices. Thanks for shedding some light on that.

It actually has become more expensive. I was there four times last year (also for work). Was in Bangkok predominantly, but also in Pattaya. Prices for girls have gone up. 2000-3000 short time is becoming common and, yes, 4000-5000 long time. I will focus on other Asian countries for the time being.